Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strain of the monumental crime they commit. Huston succeeds with some of his players and fails with others. The realism he tries to create is ofen shattered by weak dialogue and an implausible story. He has not mastered startling photographic technique. When these attempts at effect fail to divert attention from the stupid, simple plot, the suspense expires and the rest is aggravating...
...certain fields of production. (This week he sent a nine-point package farm program to the Congress, featuring a soil bank that could put $1 billion into farmers' pockets by 1957.) He wanted Congress to look into "an experimental program of flood damage indemnities." He hoped to divert federal funds to help depressed areas, which he called "pockets of chronic unemployment." High on his list was the plan-stalled through 1955-for a ten-year, $25 billion program of interstate highway construction with "adequate" arrangements for financing...
...charge came first from L'Express, the pro-Mendes-France daily, in an attempt to discredit the Algerian policy of Premier Edgar Faure. Then the government itself picked up the charge-arid played it back with an anti-American overtone in an obvious effort to divert at tention from the flop of its Algerian policy. A communique from the Ministry of the Interior (headed by Faure himself) said that the gendarme could be court-martialed and the cameraman charged with bribery. The communique did not mention the cameraman's nationality, described him only as "a representative...
...surface layer of bright, turbulent gas. They send out blasts of radiation and high-speed particles that hit the earth's atmosphere and form ionized (electrified) layers at high altitudes. Ordinary sunlight does this too, but sunspots beef up the layers and make them strong enough to divert TV signals that would normally pass through into outer space...
After "Fair Harvard," the band made a half-hearted effort to divert the spectators from the Square, but their attempt soon failed, and the whooping students spilled down Garden St. toward Radcliffe, stopping only to dodge police and frighten the ushers at the University Theatre...